Speaker 1: Alright. Injuries for today, Armstead won't practice, Christian McCaffrey won't practice.
Speaker 2: Ross Dwell he won't practice.
Speaker 1: John Feliciano won't with back, Ambrey with surgery, had Elijah
Speaker 1: Mitchell won't practice he's sick. Gibson has a quad he
Speaker 1: won't practice.
Speaker 2: Jay R. Brown knee won't practice.
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings and jay Len Moore both limited with their
Speaker 1: concussions from Costco and Aaron Banks and Danny or full
Speaker 1: go ahead, Kyle.
Speaker 3: Do you plan on playing brock Perdy against the Rams?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: Brox Ony guy for sure. No, I don't plan on playing.
Speaker 5: What went him to that decision?
Speaker 1: One? You only can you can rest seven guys if
Speaker 1: nobody's hurt, if you get two practice squad guys up.
Speaker 2: We have at least six guys.
Speaker 1: Injured right now, so there's only I know for sure
Speaker 1: we can rest one and someone with their starting quarterback.
Speaker 5: Any thought to play Brandon Allen as well as.
Speaker 2: Not right now?
Speaker 1: I mean he'll be ready, he'll get some work in
Speaker 1: the week, But going like a sam right now?
Speaker 3: Chemistry wise, is this a tricky thing?
Speaker 5: Because you've got a bunch of guys, you can't rest
Speaker 5: everybody has just said.
Speaker 3: And some guys have injuries, some guys don't.
Speaker 5: Some guys are more important to your plan. How do
Speaker 5: you negotiate that in people so you don't have bad feelings.
Speaker 2: In your room?
Speaker 1: You explain everyone that it's not an option, and you
Speaker 1: explain to them why, so they get that. And it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy to understand when you got to dress forty
Speaker 1: eight people, so you only can pick five, and you
Speaker 1: have more than five guys injured, So I already the
Speaker 1: guys who are injured are already not planned. So how
Speaker 1: many other guys you get a pick? I can pick
Speaker 1: two up from practice squad.
Speaker 2: But that's all.
Speaker 1: So unless we start cutting a bunch of players, there's
Speaker 1: no other option.
Speaker 2: So guy's got to be in uniform. They've got to
Speaker 2: be ready to go.
Speaker 1: It's nice with Brock because he can still be in
Speaker 1: a uniform and not count because he can be the
Speaker 1: third quarterback, which that happened. Will decide whether to put
Speaker 1: them in unif we're not going and handed off if
Speaker 1: that happened. But you just got explained it to the guys.
Speaker 2: And also.
Speaker 1: It's you know, you work hard to get an off.
Speaker 2: Week in this league.
Speaker 1: I think off week helps a lot of people, especially
Speaker 1: if you handle it the right way and stuff, and
Speaker 1: just this time of year and allows guys to get
Speaker 1: a little fresher and stuff, which which you don't want
Speaker 1: is two off weeks. No one gets two by weeks.
Speaker 1: And we earned ours next week. We just didn't know
Speaker 1: we were going to do it already, so we got
Speaker 1: to make sure we get something out of this week.
Speaker 2: And we've been in this situation before.
Speaker 1: Where we earned it by week was in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: but we didn't know we earned that until about eight
Speaker 1: thirty at night on the last play of the game
Speaker 1: vers Seattle. It was the first time it hit us
Speaker 1: when to play. Before that, we might have been playing
Speaker 1: that Saturday. So we were very thankful we earned it.
Speaker 1: That we need that rest and we got it that week. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're in that situation, but we already know we're there,
Speaker 1: and so that's why guys, mind's got to be right
Speaker 1: this week. You know, two by weeks isn't good for anybody,
Speaker 1: and that's why this isn't one. And I know all
Speaker 1: these questions, those are things you first think of. I
Speaker 1: do because I didn't expect to know this Sunday night,
Speaker 1: coming back on the plane. But once you do sit
Speaker 1: and the reality hits and you think about it. You
Speaker 1: look at how a fifty three man roster works with
Speaker 1: forty eight guys and only allowed to practice squad flexes,
Speaker 1: you realize, one, it's impossible, but two it's also not
Speaker 1: the best thing for the team.
Speaker 6: You more willing to live with the chance that someone
Speaker 6: could get hurt who's very important to you, or the
Speaker 6: possibility that your team would be too rusty and not
Speaker 6: ready for that first game.
Speaker 1: It's not about the rusty, It's about one how you
Speaker 1: pull off a game. You Rusty isn't always about the game.
Speaker 1: Rusty is how you treat the week, and the game
Speaker 1: is how how you treat the week. It's games three
Speaker 1: and a half hours of to me what unfolded throughout
Speaker 1: the week, and then you just get to cut it
Speaker 1: loose so that you got to play accordingly. You got
Speaker 1: to watch how.
Speaker 2: The game's going and be as smart as you can.
Speaker 1: I also think people win in playoff games because you're
Speaker 1: a team. Yes, good players put you over the hump
Speaker 1: and everything, but you want to rest a good player,
Speaker 1: go watch what happens to all the other role players.
Speaker 2: You lose your whole role players.
Speaker 1: Before you go to a playoff and you just depend
Speaker 1: on your quote unquote good players, there'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of trouble there too. So it's I mean, it is
Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, our goal is to get
Speaker 1: better this week. Are also goal is to not have
Speaker 1: anyone injured, which we're gonna but it's both of those
Speaker 1: are at risk. We're gonna work our hardest to do it.
Speaker 1: But resting the obvious ones sometimes it can be the
Speaker 1: reason you lose, because you lose all guys that you
Speaker 1: need to win that game. What allows big players to
Speaker 1: kind of do stuff that put teams over the hump
Speaker 1: that fans can see is a lot of what happens
Speaker 1: with all the other guys to do a lot of
Speaker 1: the dirty work and stuff that give you a chance.
Speaker 1: So everyone's everyone's so important when you go through a playoff.
Speaker 2: Rount this week, Brock, I mean, we're treating this is
Speaker 2: a normal week.
Speaker 1: So this is a normal Wednesday at this time of year,
Speaker 1: which means we go half speed on everything. We don't
Speaker 1: do anything full speed this time of year. On a
Speaker 1: windsay the Brock will get half of the reps with
Speaker 1: the one Sam will get the other. I want our
Speaker 1: team to treat this week as Brock going down on
Speaker 1: like the first play of the game. Now, that's why
Speaker 1: I want him both repping it. I want Brock to
Speaker 1: get some work this week, and that's something I'd like
Speaker 1: us to be ready for. If that, unfortunately did happen Thursday,
Speaker 1: when it's all full speed, probably give Sam majority of him.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that after the day and Friday we're
Speaker 1: back to walk through.
Speaker 3: Oh I, I did truly comprehend everything you said.
Speaker 2: I'm sure.
Speaker 1: Might it be good for thirty five year old left
Speaker 1: tackles too?
Speaker 2: Two bye weeks?
Speaker 1: Uh No, I don't think it's good for anybody to
Speaker 1: take two weeks off, So not at all. Let you
Speaker 1: see how Trent was and it came back after a
Speaker 1: month off or three weeks. It's it's not good. But
Speaker 1: we'll see how the game goes and everything. But his
Speaker 1: mindset this week's got to be that he's getting ready
Speaker 1: to play.
Speaker 5: It's obviously the amount of players that you have as
Speaker 5: opposed to what you have in the preseason and the
Speaker 5: way you're approaching this game. It's dramatically different. But in
Speaker 5: terms of the game plan part of it and what
Speaker 5: you're gonna put in and use without evolting anything. Is
Speaker 5: that preseason like.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it's there's a good chance for playing
Speaker 1: this team in two weeks, So I think both sides
Speaker 1: will be a pretty vanilla on that. I'd be surprised
Speaker 1: that there's too much stuff. But we also know each
Speaker 1: other pretty well, both teams and the schemes, and when
Speaker 1: we play each other, I don't think a lot goes
Speaker 1: into that anyways. That's but every game affects the next game,
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna be smart how we do everything.
Speaker 5: You're not really preparing for the Rams, but how have
Speaker 5: they improved as the season's gone.
Speaker 1: Or preparing for the RAMS big time? We could see
Speaker 1: how good they could be in Week two. Anytime that
Speaker 1: you have a quarterback like Matt Stafford, who is as
Speaker 1: good as anyone that I've ever studied, And anytime you
Speaker 1: have that, you always have a chance. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: always guy. But where they've improved the most is how
Speaker 1: much their run game's going. It's as good as any
Speaker 1: run game in this league. You put those together with
Speaker 1: that type of quarterback. Their defense start out with a
Speaker 1: lot of young guys, but they've played all year that's
Speaker 1: what we had to do in seventeen and eighteen.
Speaker 2: And when you have a.
Speaker 1: Generational playoffs there with Aaron Donald with what they're doing
Speaker 1: on the other side, that gives them a chance to
Speaker 1: be just as dangerous as anyone in this league.
Speaker 3: Obviously, you're happy to have the one seed, but this
Speaker 3: balancing rest who plays how much one of the harder
Speaker 3: things you do with this couch.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's just different.
Speaker 1: I mean, harder is when everybody's hurt and you don't
Speaker 1: feel like it's gonna be really hard when you watch
Speaker 1: that tape.
Speaker 2: To figure out how to win. So I'd say those
Speaker 2: are the worst.
Speaker 1: This is just different stuff that you think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be one way because you haven't totally thought through all
Speaker 1: of that, and then once you really sit down and
Speaker 1: think about it, you realize that's not really at all
Speaker 1: what people think it can be. I mean, I want
Speaker 1: to try to do everything as much as anybody thinks
Speaker 1: we should, but then when you really think about all
Speaker 1: the things that connect, it's it's not that simple. And
Speaker 1: this is what I got to make sure is this
Speaker 1: week doesn't hurt our team. And that's what we're going
Speaker 1: to make sure of.
Speaker 5: How much the forty eight guys you shoot up?
Speaker 2: How many can you get by with playing in a game?
Speaker 6: Is it forty thirty eight?
Speaker 5: Have you thought about that?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And which one of those guys got hurt?
Speaker 1: That's why there's no absolute and you can get by
Speaker 1: with twenty two if I'd say one out of one
Speaker 1: hundred times a thousand times. But I mean, like it
Speaker 1: just all depends how something plays out. I mean, it
Speaker 1: was until a couple of years ago they allowed an
Speaker 1: EIGHTHO alignment to get up, and if they wouldn't have
Speaker 1: had that new rule, we would have done our last
Speaker 1: three series of Baltimore with Charlie Warner playing tackle.
Speaker 2: So I mean that stuff happens.
Speaker 1: We went went twenty years without having to play a
Speaker 1: third quarterback, and then all of a.
Speaker 2: Sudden it happened an NFC championship game.
Speaker 1: So you know, when we were in Atlanta, we went
Speaker 1: all year only dressing two running backs and and then
Speaker 1: hurt till the Super Bowl when we lost seven for
Speaker 1: the whole game and DeVante was hurt. So like, it's
Speaker 1: it's all risk, and that's stuff you got to balance out,
Speaker 1: and that stuff you got to be ready to see
Speaker 1: how it goes.
Speaker 2: But it's man.
Speaker 1: You you got five receivers up, you want to sit
Speaker 1: a couple, Well, how do you get practice squad guys up?
Speaker 2: You can get two?
Speaker 1: We also have a corner down at the Ambry had surgery.
Speaker 1: We had Gip who probably won't be able to go with.
Speaker 2: This guy Eric Harris is out of practice squad, so
Speaker 2: get another. Were already down a logan Ryan sod You
Speaker 2: go with.
Speaker 1: Three safeties or do you cut people to get up
Speaker 1: an extra practice squad guy receiver Christian probably not gonna
Speaker 1: be able to go, isn't So you would go with
Speaker 1: two backs in that situation and just ride one? Or
Speaker 1: do we flex one of those practice squads and go
Speaker 1: with one less safety and one less corner and only
Speaker 1: have three or four there, which maybe could work unless
Speaker 1: someone gets a cramp.
Speaker 2: You know, it's it's everything.
Speaker 1: So it's I want to waste your guys time learning it,
Speaker 1: just like I don't. I don't waste my time learning
Speaker 1: all the injury names for Eric. But it's it's not easy.
Speaker 4: There's a motion you do mostly with Christians, sometimes with
Speaker 4: other guys. It's kind of like a shuffle to the
Speaker 4: side that looks. I don't think a lot of other
Speaker 4: teams in the league do it. What are sort of
Speaker 4: the benefits of that motion where he sort of might
Speaker 4: end up in a weird position behind the line, and
Speaker 4: what are the drawbacks?
Speaker 1: Just watching how it moves the defense, getting people out
Speaker 1: of positions, watching people's adjustments, how they're going to treat it.
Speaker 1: I mean, when people haven't seen it before, then it's cool,
Speaker 1: but then they see you do it, so they they
Speaker 1: adjust to it, and you see what that does to
Speaker 1: people and does it help something and open up another
Speaker 1: But it's just about getting people to.
Speaker 3: Move played this week is already concerned with him or
Speaker 3: felician additions.
Speaker 2: Here, No, I mean get ended up.
Speaker 1: I think we got yesterday he had a quad strain,
Speaker 1: so I mean that could be anywhere seven to ten days.
Speaker 1: So odds aren't I mean that can heal faster too,
Speaker 1: But just with our situation, the odds aren't there. And
Speaker 1: Feliciano new thing came up. But we feel pretty good
Speaker 1: about it. So we'll just see how the week goes out.
Speaker 5: People have six returned to ir as nations left? Is
Speaker 5: that on purpose? I mean, did you guys resist putting
Speaker 5: some players on ir just so that you have a
Speaker 5: lot heading into.
Speaker 6: The playoffs to use well.
Speaker 1: Also, I mean last year we ran out of them,
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't. We didn't think we'd have them all,
Speaker 1: and then towards the end of the year we had
Speaker 1: to I think decide between Ridgeway and Jimmy, and we
Speaker 1: ended up losing Ridgeway because of that. So we wanted
Speaker 1: to make sure, I mean, we didn't want to do
Speaker 1: any just to do it. Sometimes you got to do
Speaker 1: it because it's close to that time and you got
Speaker 1: to help get other guys on your roster. But we
Speaker 1: didn't have as many of those situations this year, so
Speaker 1: we got extra left. But that does help you when
Speaker 1: guys do get hurt, it just allows you not to
Speaker 1: lose them so you can get someone else on your roster.
Speaker 4: In a way.
Speaker 6: Is this more stressful for you to coach a week
Speaker 6: like this than if you needed to in this game
Speaker 6: to clinch?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, this is just stuff that's a little annoying
Speaker 1: to think about. But once you kind of do which
Speaker 1: you know, we had time to do that the last
Speaker 1: couple of days, and I just had to talk to
Speaker 1: some players so they understand it.
Speaker 2: Then it's we're good, good, joyous.
Speaker 3: Wait with Pro Bowl stuff coming out officially later today,
Speaker 3: can you kind of just put up perspect I mean,
Speaker 3: you're supposed to get a slew of guys probably today.
Speaker 3: I mean, you came into this this franchise and there
Speaker 3: were nine in twenty sixteen. Just how you and John
Speaker 3: have built this roster to this level.
Speaker 2: I'm interesting.
Speaker 1: It's been real cool that most of our Pro bowlers,
Speaker 1: I feel like, have come from here. You know, I know,
Speaker 1: you know we brought on Christian, you know, we brought
Speaker 1: in Trent. But it was just cool watching some of
Speaker 1: these guys who we'd go back and watch playoff games
Speaker 1: from twenty nineteen and stuff, and you just see rookies
Speaker 1: out there, second rookies with green Law and and and Debo,
Speaker 1: and second year player like with Fred, first year player
Speaker 1: with Bosa. You just think of some of those guys
Speaker 1: who came here and now they're kind of household names
Speaker 1: and they do a year in a year out, and
Speaker 1: it's cool. I mean, it's awesome when you bring in
Speaker 1: someone like Christians, someone like Trent, just different type of
Speaker 1: players that we got a chance to add to this group.
Speaker 1: But think of some of the stuff we had to go
Speaker 1: through to build this up, and it's just really cool
Speaker 1: we hit on some guys that weren't only just talented guys,
Speaker 1: but really made of the right stuff, which has allowed
Speaker 1: them to turn themselves into that and continue to get
Speaker 1: better each year after.
Speaker 5: And in a year voting.
Speaker 3: What makes Eric just so deserving for leadership on the
Speaker 3: field after.
Speaker 1: Nominations just out he does it day in and day out,
Speaker 1: year around, Like I didn't even know about all this
Speaker 1: stuff till you know, I've been here long enough to
Speaker 1: where I gradually hear about it. And you know, he
Speaker 1: doesn't do it just for everyone to know about it.
Speaker 1: He does it because he has a.
Speaker 2: Passion for it.
Speaker 1: I know how you know, with where he's from being
Speaker 1: close to hear and how much he's held for that area.
Speaker 1: I know Eric truly loves it, is truly a great
Speaker 1: person in that way, and I know how much all
Speaker 1: of our team looks up to him in that way
Speaker 1: on kind of handle all social issues and just really
Speaker 1: how to be the best person you can.
Speaker 2: All Right, Thanks guys,